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I have spent some time on the web over 5 years, exchanged emails with lots of people and from the information gathered have put together what I believe is a relatively accurate trail of Muston families. Details are proven back to a point, but prior records are yet to be confirmed but they link well together by date and location of Christenings, Births and marriages, parents names, census records and letters. Those records are included elsewhere on this site. Much of the preliminary work on my Australian family is the work of Rita Dorling (dec) who traced the decendants of my Gt GF John here in Australia and wrote much of the Aussie Mustons page. If you can confirm or make alterations please let me know. I would like to add as many dates of the above events as possible, also any history of family life, work, photos etc would be gratefully accepted. If you would like to use the Muston.com website for a webpage or have yourname@muston.com for your email please contact me.
There are records according to the somewhat doubtful Heraldry books showing Mustons living in the Nottinghamshire area as early as the 11th century. These books say that Muston means “town of mice” so maybe we are decendants of the Pied Piper (haha).. The city of Nottingham is 35 miles north of where our story begins, so given a time of 400 years we are relatively close to the alledged source of the Mustons. According to records kept by the Mormons, taken from actual Church records in England, there was a large family of Mustons at Nether Whitacre, about 15 miles from Monks Kirby in the 1540’s, including one Robtus Muston. One day I am sure a connection will be found to this family.
In “Bourkes General Armory” the supposed “original description” of the Muston coat of arms (if we ever had one at all) is as follows: “AR., A Chevron between three crosses Flory SA.” Below is their version of this translation.
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